This Month's Recipes
Chicken Salad Tea Sandwiches
Ingredients
12 each soft buttermilk sliced bread
8 oz. softened cream cheese
Filling:
2 lbs. poached chicken in stock
1 cup sun dried cranberries
1 cup walnuts
1/2 cup celery
2 cups mayo
(to taste) salt & black pepper
Directions
Prepare chicken filling by poaching chicken
in chicken stock 15 minutes. Cool. In food processor,
pulse chicken with cranberries, walnuts, celery
and salt and pepper. In mixing bowl, moisten
chicken mixture with mayo. Spread each side
of bread with cream cheese; fill with 2 oz.
chicken mixture, cut off crust, cut into four
pieces. Garnish with piped cream cheese Rosette,
top with one cranberry and a small celery stalk
sliver.
YIELD: 24
**Serve with Scones, Petit
Fours, Lemon Curd and different tea flavors
for an elegant "High Tea" event!
Lemon Curd
Ingredients
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons finely grated fresh lemon zest
1/2 cup sugar
3 large eggs
3/4 stick (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut
into bits
Directions:
Whisk together juice, zest, sugar and eggs in
a 2-quart heavy saucepan. Stir in butter and
cook over moderately low heat, whisking frequently,
until curd is thick enough to hold marks of
whisk and first bubble appears on surface, about
6 minutes. Transfer lemon curd to a bowl and
chill, its surface covered with plastic wrap,
until cold, at least 1 hour. (Curd can be chilled
up to 1 week).
YIELD: about 1
1/3 cup
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